and Lili makes 6: October 2012

Lili has been home one month today. We've been busy settling into a routine around here, so I haven't had much time for blogging. But I wanted to write today, to think about how she's progressed since we've come home. She has a bunch of phrases that she uses regularly: "where did it go?", "all done," "too cold," "too big," "one more time" (which usually means 10 or 12 more times : ), "are you ok?", "this one," and "all gone;" she counts to 10; and she uses a bunch of words like: uh oh, oopsie, same, car, wheel, kitty cat, pretty, boy, girl, nose, ouchie, night night, iPhone, wait wait wait (always in triplicate : ), hot hot hot (also always in triplicate), and butterfly (which is always whispered). And she understands a lot more than she says, so we're communicating pretty well! Her favorite activities include pretending to be a cat, playing with toy cars, swinging on the swing, riding in the seat on the back of my bike, and playing with her karaoke machine. She is a great sleeper now that she is over jet lag - she might get up once a night to go to the bathroom, but she seems to sleep well overall and usually sleeps till about 7 or 7:30 in the morning (once in a while even 8!). And she seems to be bonding well with all of us - she loves to say night night to all of the kids and give them kisses. We had our first visit from our social worker today and she seems to think Lili is doing very well.

I have fallen off significantly with the picture taking since we got home, so I don't have a lot of pictures to share, but here are a few: